When you put on that bikini for the first time in the summer you think SHIT.

Immediately panicking you're like okay well I at least have a few weeks to jumpstart this thing, loose the sophomore thirty (double freshmen year for some of us) and get in enough shape to look in the mirror in that said bikini and not cringe, right? WRONG.

The first thought to get this process going is a quick diet or "cleanse". A cleanse being all the hype these days to drop a quick 10-15 pounds in a few weeks. Very ideal, right? WRONG, yet again. Sure if you have the most willpower and commitment in the world then yes go for it. But if you did you probably wouldn't be in this predicament like the most of us human girls who enjoy their 2 am dominos fix. Therefor, the cleanse or diet lifestyle will prove useless for one and torturous on a side note.

I thought I could brainwash myself into thinking I really could stick to this strict meal plan for just a couple weeks to attend the beach without feeling like a whale. But seriously who can drink water as your only beverage for a week straight. Count me out.

Anyways what happened here is I convinced myself like some of you hopeful girls probably did to that you could stick it to the man (your mother), prove her wrong, and indeed loose that noticeable winter warmth (fat) you'd been accumulating at school.

Yes, you can do it but not by dieting honey. There is a reason DIE is the first three letters. It doesn't work, it is time-consuming, draining, and expensive. Healthy alternatives take some research, thought, and a large chunk out of the wallet. But this wasn't the worst part of this hell week of health.

I found myself dreaming about nachos. I work in a restaurant so this may not be that surprising but I was mesmerized by the pound of cheesy deliciousness passing me every few minutes. Yours may have not been nachos but I can bet you my hourly pay that within that time you had a sweet treat or guilty pleasure on the brain. Whether it be a snack you surely should stay away from or a hefty bowl of ice cream it just wasn't allowed.

Making you crave it THAT much MORE. Come on we all know, especially us girls that we want what we CANNOT have. Now, sets in the torture phase of this week and the inevitable failure. If you pushed all of these juicy thoughts and images of your favorite dishes to the side, good for you. But I know as soon as you completed that week or two of dieting that you had that plate ready to go, most likely doubled or tripled in size because you longed for it for so long.

You deserve it right? WRONG. You stuck it out but for what purpose now that every single day you feel the urge to consume all of the fatty foods you went without.

In the end, there is no point. To my dismay it was all false excitement when I stepped on the scale and saw I had indeed dropped the promised ten pounds. I looked better and felt better but my thoughts of cookies, cake, and ice cream haunted me until I caved. And the thing is you WILL cave.

So rather than wanting to buy all new clothes and teeny tiny bikinis now that you got your figure back, DON'T. Do not put yourself through the agony of the short lived excitement that a diet brings. You will need that food that put you in this predicament that much more and that much more FREQUENTLY.

So when it comes to DIEting my advice is save yourself and DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME ladies.